Movies: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1974
La Paloma (1974)
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Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband's love has cured her, but her efforts to love hi...
- 1979
Bourbon Street Blues (1979)
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An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical lan...
- 2012
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun (2012)
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A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun"....
- 1971
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 (1971)
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About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970....
- 1972
Bremen Freedom (1972)
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A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She def...
- 1968
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp (1968)
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Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Str...
- 1981
Theater in Trance (1981)
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinder's reading of one of the famous essays on theater: Ant...
- 2011
My Name Is Not Ali (2011)
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Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through interviews with his companions and family members as well as archive material. With openness and slight nai...
- 1970
End of the Commune? (1970)
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"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his m...
- 1970
The Niklashausen Journey (1970)
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Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Bla...
- 1969
Al Capone im deutschen Wald (1969)
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- 1978
Little Godard (1978)
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The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to ra...
- 1976
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)
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BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures....
- 2002
Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002)
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Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk)....
- 1966
This Night (1966)
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The first R.W. Fassbinder film project. 8 mm color. Considered lost....
- 2015
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands (2015)
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that has yet to be filled, as well as a body of unique, multi...
- 1976
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me (1976)
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- 1987
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk (1987)
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Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES....
- 1982
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works (1982)
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This portrait, drawn by Wolf Gremm, shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor - taking the leading role in the film "KAMIKAZE 1989", also directed by Wolf Gremm - and as a director working on "QUERELLE", his adaption of the work by Jean Genet....
- 2012
Garbage, the City and Death (2012)
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Romi (Gabriela Mícová), a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to the streets by her pimp Franz (Stanislav Majer), the closer she is to a complete bre...